Category >> Jon Adams
Things to see: 7/2/10
Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under video , Tim Lane , Things to see , Steven Weissman , Steve Brodner , Renee French , Paul Hornschemeier , Noah Van Sciver , Nate Neal , Marco Corona , Kevin Huizenga , Josh Simmons , Jon Adams , john kerschbaum , John Hankiewicz , Jim Flora , Gipi , Gary Panter , Frank Santoro , Drew Weing , Debbie Drechsler , Dame Darcy
2 Jul 2010 2:28 PM
Periodic clips & strips -- click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• Set to Sea pages 104 and 105 from Drew Weing
• It's your all-new weekly installment of "Cartoon Boy " from John Kerschbaum
• Lots of Kevin Huizenga updates: a new Amazing Facts and Beyond with Leon Beyond strip, Fight or Run 's Chopper at rest; and minicomic sketchbooks at New Construction (not to mention a peek at his new D&Q book)
• A heartbreaking "I, Anonymous " from Steven Weissman
• Sketches of sculptures by Aristide Maillol by John Hankiewicz
• A scene with power lines by Frank Santoro
• New crafts (including this vampire wedding cake topper) and photos from Portugal in Dame Darcy 's latest blog update
"THEN, OUTA NOWHERE… Grunt. Shriek. Bash. Crash. Ook. Ook!"
• A new short short story from Gary Panter
• A luscious new story page and this week's Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane
• A 1967 Mexican cityscape by Jim Flora
• Debbie Drechsler sketches squirrels
• It's Paul Hornschemeier 's new weekly t-shirt design for his Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop — I can just hear the funky theme song
• Noah Van Sciver is waiting on tenterhooks to hear if the story this page is from has been accepted for Mome (sorry Noah, I got no scoop)
• Quackers silliness here and here and Randy Gander raunchiness here and here from Josh Simmons & cohort
• From Renee French : photo , platform , tire swing , hair rock
• Steve Brodner 's tribute to Sen. Robert Byrd
• Something new from a work in progress, an article for Il Post , and a video about the Mafia by Gipi
• Nate Neal , payin' the bills
• Two illustrations by Marco Corona for Internazionale
• Two new installments of Truth Serum by Jon Adams
Things to see: 6/21/10
Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under video , Tim Lane , Things to see , Steven Weissman , Steve Brodner , Stephen DeStefano , Robert Crumb , Richard Sala , Renee French , Popeye , Peter Bagge , Paul Hornschemeier , Mort Walker , Michael Kupperman , Mark Kalesniko , Marco Corona , Kevin Huizenga , JR Williams , Josh Simmons , Jon Adams , Johnny Ryan , john kerschbaum , John Hankiewicz , Jim Flora , Hans Rickheit , Gene Deitch , Frank Santoro , fashion , Daniel Clowes , Anders Nilsen
21 Jun 2010 9:59 PM
Periodic clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• Gonked, Glooked & Slurped! share a recently-acquired original Eightball page by Daniel Clowes
• Michael Kupperman hijacks Beetle Bailey — according to this recent TCJ article I think Mort Walker would approve
• The Paris Review presents a gallery of Robert Crumb self-portraits through the years (via The Comics Reporter )
• It's your all-new weekly installment of "Cartoon Boy " from John Kerschbaum
• J.R. Williams has zillions of great prints for sale at his new J.R.'s Prints of Darkness site
• Robot 6 reports: Jon Adams does a Chick-style strip to promote a video game; also from Jon, a new Truth Serum strip
• From Kevin Huizenga : a new Amazing Facts and Beyond with Leon Beyond strip; new Fight or Run action; new New Construction business
• From Steven Weissman : this week's "I, Anonymous " and three more Post-Its
• Three ironically-labeled "copies from famous artists " from the sketchbook of John Hankiewicz
• Aha! All those teasers from Frank Santoro have been leading up to this, "page 1 of a comic for Internazionale , an Italian independent weekly newsmagazine. Coming soon!"
• Speaking of Internazionale , Marco Corona has an illustration in this week's issue
• Richard Sala presents the original art for the cover of Evil Eye #10 and a 1987 rarity called "Haircut "
• From Tim Lane , this week's Belligerent Piano and this illustration for the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase
• On the Jim Flora Art Blog: Electromechanical Design sales brochure ; a children's book illustration detail ; half of a 1950s business card illustration (above); and a link to the 1959 UPA animated adaptation of Flora's The Fabulous Firework Family produced by Gene Deitch
• Johnny Ryan 's Lovecraftian creatures, coming soon to a Stinckers machine near you
• "Girl in Black Dress and Scarf " by Mark Kalesniko
• It's Paul Hornschemeier 's new weekly t-shirt design for his Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop and it incorporates the logo from his 2007 art show at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
• From Josh Simmons , various Quackers blog shenanigans and Randy Gander tomfoolery with Wendy Chin (including her version of Josh's "Jesus Christ" from his Mome story of the same name)
• So much great new stuff from Renee French — just go to her main blog page , there's too much to link individually
• Buy a drawing of two Popeyes punching by Stephen DeStefano to benefit Gulf Coast cleanup
• Speaking of the Gulf, this is just one of a trio of videos by Steve Brodner on the topic, including his latest segment on Need to Know on PBS
• Two of Anders Nilsen 's entries in Post-It V
• Page 29 of Hans Rickheit 's Ectopiary
Things to see: 6/11/10
Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under Tim Lane , Things to see , Steven Weissman , Steve Brodner , Roger Langridge , Renee French , Paul Hornschemeier , Noah Van Sciver , life imitates comics , Laura Park , Josh Simmons , Jon Adams , Johnny Ryan , John Hankiewicz , Jim Flora , Gary Panter , Gabrielle Bell , Frank Santoro , fashion , Ernie Bushmiller , Derek Van Gieson , Debbie Drechsler , Chris Ware , Andrice Arp , Abstract Comics
11 Jun 2010 3:04 PM
No-longer-daily clips & strips (we'll probably be posting these twice a week for the foreseeable future) — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
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Presspop 's limited-edition poster featuring the artwork from the slipcase of their Japanese edition of
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by
Chris Ware — it's an all-new strip!
• Gary Panter has reconfigured and updated his website ; details via his blog
• Life Imitates Comics Dept: Andrei Molotiu discovers "The first abstract comics candy bar " (it does look remarkably like one of his own strips)
• From Steven Weissman , two new Post-It Show previews, this week's "I, Anonymous " and a fantastic Covered entry (above)
• Also on Covered , Jon Adams 's delightfully cheeky homage to Chris Ware ; elsewhere, the new episode of Jon's Truth Serum
• Speaking of the Post-It Show, here's one by Andrice Arp along with more info about the exhibit
• Sketchbook silhouettes by John Hankiewicz
• Frank Santoro 's Italian job
• It's this week's Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane
• Jim Flora illustrated Ohio for Fortune Magazine , 1947
• Damselflies & mushrooms from Debbie Drechsler
• Gabrielle Bell posts the second half of her France travel diary as well as Laura Park 's hilarious response thereto
• Paul Hornschemeier posts his newest Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop design and stumbles across his entry in a Nancy theme sketchbook which we've possibly featured on Flog before but it's worth another look
• Noah Van Sciver posts another excerpt from his work-in-progress The Hypo
• Josh Simmons introduces a new character at Quackers
• From Renee French , a head , a tube (photo), a bunny
• Steve Brodner plugs the documentary film Gasland
• Roger Langridge draws Barney Google
• More Tales of Abstraction House from Derek Van Gieson
• Johnny Ryan cat portrait
Daily clips & strips -- click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• A spot illo of W.C. Fields by Michael Kupperman in this week's New Yorker
• Another Post-It preview from Steven Weissman
• Cartoon Josh Simmons & Wendy Chin's doctor is a real Quack(er)
• Back to hairy subject matter for Renee French
• Stephen DeStefano posts this teaser of a short animation he's working on to promote his forthcoming Fantagraphics graphic novel Lucky in Love
• This week's Truth Serum by Jon Adams
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• More juvenilia from Bob Fingerman
• Another lithograph by John Hankiewicz
• Nice fledgling bird sketches by Debbie Drechsler
• Stinckers by Steven Weissman & co. are now available at Big Brain Comics in Minneapolis
• This week's Truth Serum by Jon Adams
• T. Edward Bak 's Steller Sea Lion linocut/letterpress print (part of his research expedition fundraising effort)
Daily clips & strips -- click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• Dash Shaw made this zine to distribute at the Sundance-organized table-read of the script for his in-development animated feature The Ruined Cast (interior pages at the link)
• I like this Frank Santoro image, whatever it is
• Jim Woodring redefines "treehugger " — yikes!
• This week's Truth Serum by Jon Adams
Things to see: 5/12/10
Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under Tim Lane , Tim Hensley , Things to see , tattoos , Steven Weissman , Jon Adams , Frank Santoro , Derek Van Gieson , Daniel Clowes , art shows , Andrice Arp
12 May 2010 2:33 PM
Daily clips & strips -- click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• A fan's Li'l Enid tattoo, spotted by Peggy Burns at TCAF
• Tim Hensley re-posts "NSFW ," his story from Kramer's Ergot 7 , this time with scans of the original tracts which inspired the strip
• Nut shot aftermath! It's this week's Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane
• Steven Weissman 's pieces from the Butter and Blood art show at GR2 are now for sale online
• Frank Santoro sneakily updated his Silver Surfer image, and Spurge makes my day by confirming that it is, indeed, for Marvel's Strange Tales 2
• This is a detail of a piece Andrice Arp will have in Tree Show VI at GRSF opening this coming Saturday — more info
• Your daily "Devil Doll " and "Tales of Abstraction House " previews from Derek Van Gieson
• This week's Truth Serum by Jon Adams
Daily clips & strips -- click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• Stephen DeStefano announces that his graphic novel Lucky in Love (coming this Summer from Fantagraphics) is in the can and reveals these character designs for the sequel, already in progress
• The Esther Pearl Watson 's Unlovable Fan Page on Facebook presents a classic Tammy strip as it first appeared in Bust magazine
• Steven Weissman continues to tease his pieces in the Butter and Blood art show at GR2 with "Wah! Wah! I Wanna "
• Nut shot! It's this week's Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane
• This week's Truth Serum by Jon Adams
Things to see: 4/28/10
Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under Things to see , Steve Brodner , Peanuts , Paul Hornschemeier , Newave , Matthias Lehmann , Laura Park , Jon Adams , Jim Flora , Jaime Hernandez , Frank Santoro , Derek Van Gieson , Anders Nilsen
28 Apr 2010 8:52 PM
Daily clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• At What Things Do , the concluding half of Jaime Hernandez 's amazing "The Ghoul Man"
• Newave! editor Michael Dowers has been working on a Tarot deck — here's the 6 of Wands, as posted on Facebook
• Matthias Lehmann emerges to reveal some recent illustration and comics work
• Looks like Frank Santoro 's working out some Cold Heat layouts
• Paul Hornschemeier Kroffts it up at Covered (and comments on his blog )
• Anders Nilsen gets biblical on us
• "The Rite of Spring " by Jim Flora on the cover of the March 1944 issue of Coda
• Mike Sterling catches Snoopy making a grammatical error in The Complete Peanuts 1973-1974
• Two new Geek Love illustrations by Laura Park for Picture Book Report — the other one's even more NSFW than this one
• Lloyd Blankfein introduces you to his little friend, courtesy of Steve Brodner
• Derek Van Gieson is busy
• This week's Truth Serum by Jon Adams
Things to see: 4/21/10
Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under Things to see , The Stranger , Kevin Huizenga , Josh Simmons , Jon Adams , Johnny Ryan , Esther Pearl Watson , Ellen Forney , Derek Van Gieson , Debbie Drechsler , Charles Burns
21 Apr 2010 3:07 PM
Daily clips & strips -- click for improved/additional viewing at the sources:
• Ellen Forney 's on the cover (as both artist and subject, with her BF) of this week's issue of The Stranger
• On Facebook, Esther Pearl Watson 's Unlovable Fan Page posts the most recent Unlovable strip from Bust
• Johnny Ryan says on his LJ "One of my comics will be in a group print show this weekend in France."
• Another really nice bird sketch (this time a Cooper's hawk) by Debbie Drechsler
• Meathaus posts scans of the latest issue of Charles Burns 's Free Shit minicomic
• Josh Simmons & Wendy Chin drop themselves into their Quackers universe
• Kevin Huizenga illustrates a link to an article of interest
• Things in Derek Van Gieson 's Abstraction House are really getting weird
• Here's this week's Truth Serum from Jon Adams